Summary

Throughout the first day, she finds the odd trinket hidden in the clutter–remnants from another time. Her favorite is a small pewter ring with a gray moonstone that reminds her of Vex – because Pike knows Vex loves jewelry in all forms.

(Definitely not because the sparkling gem reminds her of Vex’s eyes)---Pike is always left behind, always needs to fill her time.

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(Can we end the endings? / Can we make believe this will last forever?): Vex is used to giving away pieces of her heart, to Vax, to Pike, to Keyleth and Zahra and Percival and all the rest. It's safer that way, in hands much less fragile and much more deserving. But this feels different, like a deal not quite finalised, and when Vex closes her eyes she imagines she can feel the soft half-desperate flutter of wings in a space she had never realised was empty.

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In the aftermath of the Sunken Tomb, Pike knows there's a conversation she and Vex still need to have. She's not really sure what to say or how to say it, but she'll be there, and she figures that'll have to do for now.

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Percival Fredrickstein von Mussel Klossowski de Rolo III did not celebrate Valentine’s Day. He did not like Valentine’s Day. It was a bullshit holiday that he in no way supported. But when celebrating Valentine’s Day meant doing his favorite thing with his favorite person, namely day drinking with Keyleth, he made an exception.

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She had turned the lights off so Percy could sleep, but, virtue of being a half-elf she supposes, she can see well enough to see the strand of white-gold in her hand. Pike’s offering. The one that cut though the raven-edged darkness and brought her back. She’d found it in her hand when she woke, and again, tucked into her armor while she was undressing, the strands neatly woven together. And she’d remembered Pike’s voice, oddly distorted, cutting through silence. A coolness, pure and clean, cutting through the heat. A light, cutting through the void and giving the universe shape again. “It’s not time yet, Vex. It’s not your time.” A small sob. “Vex, come back please.”

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Vex contemplates the offering Pike made to bring her back, and then makes a decision. Her relationship definitely has room for one more.